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Having seen the AR50 photo posted it made me think!! Yes I did!!
What was your first Petrol powered bike! (Not pedal Rich!)
Mine was a Yam RS100! 85mph down hill, zits on the tank, arse in the air! I know I got a speeding ticket to prove it!!!
How many of you will admit to the joys (?) of a Fizzy (FS1E)?
We all started some where, be brave, be honest! :) Dare you to be truthful!!!
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Hi my first bike dare I say it was the Suzuki GP100 :)
Great little bike not the fastest at the time but still managed to come off and brake my collar bone, :'(
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My first bike is arriving this week! yay!
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my mum had a fizzy ;D my first bike was a suzuki ts50 :-? not something im proud of but it got me from a-b
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Mine was an Aerox 100 :-[ :o
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Mine was a Thundercat - cracking bike as well! :)
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first bike was technically a harley! and before anyone says owt.........it was an army harley!
first owned bike............ZX6R J2.......in blue obviously ;)
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First bike for me was a GSXR400rr Thought it was broke until a mate told me to rev the t*ts of it!! Went rather well then!
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Had my 1st bike aged 5, i had a Yamaha pee-wee (50cc auto) off road bike..still in the family today !!
After that it was a number of Kawasaki KX Motocross bikes, culminating in pro circuit prepped KX125 that was loony :o
My 1st road bike though was a Kwak ZZ600, it was 8yrs old and had done 1500 miles :) , progressed onto a Honda Firestorm and yesterday picked up a brand new Kwak ZX-6R and loving it...
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err i started with a dt125 field bike that rich and i shared then he got his YZ125 i also had a XLR125R which was crap. Then got my KTM 440 2 stroke beasty
But my first road going bike was/is my gsxr600k2
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R6, What I have now, is what I have started with :)
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Interesting replys guys!
I had A GP100 as well! Girl where I worked had the same bike but 3 numbers different on the reg plate! Prob was that was all we shared... Pity as she was a real looker... Bike wasnt bad either!!! LOL! ;)
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Funny how so many of you went straight into "BIG" bikes and skipped the initiation / humiliation of 50 - 125 ccs of arm wrenching power!!
Those were the days! Sigh!!
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I was over 22 so just went onto the DAS...was never into bikes until the father-in-law got me interested!
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DAS? Sorry being a bit fick today mate!
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direct access scheme..means if you're over 22yrs old you can do cbt then training then your test and hop straight on any bike :P very dangerous really hehe as you can do it in a week and be out riding on your own on a huge bike with very little training
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direct access scheme..means if you're over 22yrs old you can do cbt then training then your test and hop straight on any bike :P very dangerous really hehe as you can do it in a week and be out riding on your own on a huge bike with very little training
Funny thing I noticed when I bought my new bike, the dealer gave me a full safety lecture, DVD and suggested some advanced rider training. Something i will deffo look into...
It appear the government have put pressure on manufacturers and importers to get some safety messages out, considering how lethal some of these litre capacity sports bikes are.
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Suzuki ZR50 X1...........
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few of us on here are hoping to do an advanced bike course sometime this year
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I've just received details of bikesafe from Wilts Police.
WIll make a new post soon
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Bike safe is pretty good, Did with Cheltenham police two years ago. Was more than a little surprised when the instructor passed me on his deauville at a little more than 70! There is a bikesafe show on 1st and 2nd at cheltenham race course, run by glos police with observed rides on both days.
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PUCH MAXI................ :-[
RIGHT ...........I'LL GET ME COAT
P.S- IT WAS 28 YEARS AGO :o
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Are you all ready for a trip dowm memory lane? 1. Royal Enfield, 2 Arial Huntmaster 350 single, 3 Arial Arrow, Arial Square Four, (should have kept that) Norton Commander, Triumph Bonni, Built my own Triton, (stonking bike), fj 1200, Pan and now on my second Rt, got knocked of the first one, first time in all those years. O and 2 or 3 off roaders.
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A trusty CG125 for my test followed by a Triumph T100 - which I still have although not on the road since 1992. Lots of other stuff has come & gone in the meantime.
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wow would love to see pics of the t100 BB!
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I started off with a Piaggio Typhoon 50cc - was great fun, quite zippy compared to my push bike ::) £2 to fill the tank and would get from 0-35mph maybe 40 with tail wind, down hill, leaning forward, farting .... faster than a 1L micra :)
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wow would love to see pics of the t100 BB!
Your wish, is my command! One very poor quality scan of an old photo of my 1969 T100. No digitals of the old girl - must take some! I've had her since 1983 - before I passed my test! 8-)
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...100cropped.jpg
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that's gorgeous! I absolutely love the old triumphs. you should get that back on the road :D
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I had a ZXR 600 (year 2000), I sold it to buy a car, we learn from out mistakes!
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I started with honda CBF 600. Great bike to start on but soon discovered that i wanted something with more umf and something that would zip round the corners better.
Got my Kawasaki Z750s and it suits me down to the ground.
It is interesting that it is about 50/50 on this site about people starting on 50's or going striaght to the mamoth bikes.
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that's gorgeous! I absolutely love the old triumphs. you should get that back on the road :D
Hopefully it'l be back on the road this year, just needs a few bits to finish off. A mate is doing it when he has the time but as he runs a busy bike shop for a living the time is not so easy to find!
It came off the road for a winter rebuild in 1992 - didn't say which winter tho' ;D
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that's gorgeous! I absolutely love the old triumphs. you should get that back on the road :D
My sentiments exactly!
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My first bike was when i was 6 it was a BSA Junior 50.. In flame red.. with white front mud gaurd...
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I started on a hairdryer (a cool one though) it was a Gilera DNA 50cc
great fun to ride andhelped me get my awareness on the road, before progressing onto a Yamaha FZR400RR which I quickly crashed after 5 months, landing myself in hospital for ages.
in fact I crashed on the very same road you guys were talking about in Malmesbury, I was on my way to work at Dyson and crashed (partly due to ice, partly in-experience), it hurt anyway.
Now I ride the marvellous Kawasaki ZX7R and a fine machine it is!
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ooowww not a nice road to crash on.... Ice and slippery roads,, hmm been there done that in a bloody land rover too.. oops muppet
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it happens, they say- and I'm sorry to do this to everyone as it seems to be quite an accurate statistic - "every biker has one big accident" and I consider that one to be mine, touch wood, I learnt a lot and it taught me to slow down and re-learn what I already thought I knew.
I think it's made me a much better rider in the long run.
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I know my car accident changed my outlook on driving... maybe i can get credit for that crash in the biking crash column???? Fat chance i am sure